Sunday, March 12, 2023

History for March 12

History for March 12 - On-This-Day.com
Mitt Romney 1947 - Politician
  • 1609 - The Bermuda Islands became an English colony.
  • 1789 - The U.S. Post Office was established.
  • 1884 - The State of Mississippi authorized the first state-supported college for women. It was called the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College.
  • 1894 - Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time.
  • 1912 - The Girl Scout organization was founded. The original name was Girl Guides.
  • 1933 - President Paul von Hindenburg dropped the flag of the German Republic and ordered that the swastika and empire banner be flown side by side.
  • 1938 - The "Anschluss" took place as German troops entered Austria.
  • 1947 - U.S. President Truman established the "Truman Doctrine" to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism.
  • 1998 - Astronomers cancelled a warning that a mile-wide asteroid might collide with Earth saying that calculations had been off by 600,000 miles.
  • 1999 - Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic became members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). All three countries were members of the former Warsaw Pact.

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